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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Depends on how willing you are to allow a screen or similar to babysit your kid. Plus personality. [/quote]

Um no. My kid starting doing what OP is suggesting at just over 3. No screens at all. She goes down and draws with her crayons or reads her me readers waiting for the rest of the house to get up.

OP it is just a matter of building their confidence in their own independence. [/quote]

Um yeah. I'm the PP you're responding to and we don't allow our elementary kid screen time, and never had, but I can't imagine there's anything to argue with here. Screen access has influence, as does personality-- that's all I'm saying. Perhaps your child can be safe and occupied without screen time, but not all can *at that same age*. Generally (not always) screen time lowers the age of "independent" play for any individual kid, but the age varies among kids anyway. Most kids can be more easily occupied by screens than other activities, IMO. As is implied by the many comments here talking about kids getting up and turning on the TV themselves. [/quote]

Your post that I replied to seemed to imply that this was only feasible if screens were involved. I and other pps are saying that we have kids that can do this without screens. Clearly it won't work for every child but it works for some children and that is a good piece of information to have.

Yes if you're ok with screen time (which I actually am) it becomes easier but it's not 100% necessary[/quote]

I read PP as just implying that for most kids the age at which they will hang out alone without causing problems depends on whether you're OK w/ screens. I have to say, I think that's true. Most kids can reliably watch a screen for an hour alone before they can reliably do most other activities totally unsupervised for an hour. Not all kids, but most. [/quote]

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